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AMARILLO, Texas (AP) - State regulators have approved a utility's plan to purchase power from wind-energy facilities in three states in a push to produce additional power but at a more affordable cost. Xcel Energy announced Friday that the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will visit John F. Kennedy's gravesite next week and pay tribute to two of Kennedy's lasting initiatives as the nation observes the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Obama and his wife, Michelle, will be joined by former President...

DALLAS (AP) - A North Texas jury continues deliberations for a second day over whether a man convicted of killing his children's baby sitter should serve life in prison without parole or face execution. The Dallas County jury was to resume deliberations Saturday morning on...

HOUSTON (AP) - A civil rights organization says a South Texas school district has reversed course and will allow a photo of a transgender student in a tuxedo to appear in the teen's high school yearbook. The Southern Poverty Law Center says that after a Friday afternoon meeting...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's environmental agency says it will ask federal prosecutors to investigate the killing of a jaguar by a man who posted photos of the dead animal on Facebook. The agency said in a statement released Friday that the man also posted photographs of the...

DALLAS (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a Dallas vice detective has been accused of passing unauthorized tips about police raids and investigations into prostitution. The U.S. attorney's office says Jose Luis Bedoy was arrested Friday on a four-count indictment. It accuses him of...

Court documents indicate a deadly shooting at a house party in suburban Houston that left two teenagers dead and 19 hurt might not have started as a result of celebratory gunfire. Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia had said Saturday's shooting began when someone fired a pistol...

A West Texas couple and their son have died in the fiery crash of their single-engine plane while trying to land in Amarillo during fog. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the accident early Monday killed William Michael Capt, his wife Robin Lea Capt and their 19-year-...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says if he weren't a Virginian he'd "probably want to be a Texan." Swearing in new Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht in Austin on Monday, Scalia said, "I do fit right in here." That came in response to Gov. Rick Perry, who...